On Oct 25, 9:33 pm, Andrew Sarangan wrote:
On Oct 25, 11:06 pm, James Robinson wrote:





Andrew Sarangan wrote:
Most of the times I am writing proposals or evaluating other peoples
proposals, so I don't know ahead of time what resources I might need.
I may need to pull an article from a journal, or search for a piece of
information on a government database. Besides, I don't like the idea
of syncing everything that is on my server to a laptop because of the
security risk. On an aircraft that costs hundreds of millions, surely
there must be a way to link to the internet via some satellite link.
If Southwest offered internet access, I would happily take their bench
seats over private suites in a luxury airline that did not offer data
service.

Singapore Airlines used to have the Boeing Connexion service for
broadband internet. Fees were something like $30 for unlimited access on
the flight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connexion_by_Boeing

As noted in the above link, Boeing decided to shut down the commercial
service about a year ago, since they couldn't attract enough customers.

This defies my logic. If $30 for unlimited broadband was a hard sell,
how is $15/min for a bed on an airplane an easy sell?- Hide quoted text -

According to the WSJ article the airline's market analysis showed that
those in business class want to work and are excited to be in big
seats. Those in 1st class are used to being taken care of and just
want to sleep. No internet connection required.

-Robert